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Roll Call: Michelle Olsen • Lisa Pruka • Sally Davis • Kelly Hagstrand • Denise Teal • Terri Clingerman • Wayne Koutsky • Jo Roach
Members Absent: Claudia Frank
Call to order: 5:03 pm PDT by Michelle Olsen
1. Delegate Business
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The Coonhound Club is asking for fellow parent club support in their objection to having the AKC Board and staff override their wishes (and a majority vote from their parent club) regarding a recent studbook decision. We have contacted them to let them know we do support them and their right to determine the direction of their breed (since we have had similar frustrations with the AKC board rejecting our own requests regarding our studbook).
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Mixed breed worksheet – this is a worksheet that was sent to the delegates. AKC is asking for parent club input on how to include mixed breeds in performance events. The board came to a consensus that mixed breeds should be able to earn the same performance titles as purebred dogs (even performance championships); there should be no designation between mixed breed and purebred performance titles; and that mixed breeds and purebreds should show in the same classes. However, the mixed breeds should not be included in the AKC ranking systems since AKC is a purebred registry. Mixed breeds should be allowed to form their own parent club and hold their own specialties.
2. Recording Secretary’s
Report: Jo Roach
Following Julia Ecklar’s resignation, Michelle asked Jo Roach from WA to accept
the recording secretary appointment (see 5.1). Minutes approval also under 5.1.
3. Corresponding Secretary’s Report: Terri Clingerman
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From AKC: Event #2007507017, Rally on Friday at the national, is approved regarding date and location. It's limited to 100 dogs.
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From AKC: Event #2007507021, Tracking on Monday at the national, is approved regarding date and location.
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From AKC: Event #2007507022, Tracking Excellent on Monday at the national, is approved regarding date and location.
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Mailed payment to AKC for BCSA to sponsor special medallions for Border Collies at the Long Beach Invitational for BOB, BOS, Best Bred-by, top dog, and top Agility dog.
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Received this year's ballot for the AKC Lifetime Achievement Award. The nominees in Conformation are Edd Bivin, Damara Bolte, and Peter Green. The nominees in Companion Events are Lynn Eggers, Richard Mullen, and Mid Rothrock. The nominees in Performance are Dennis Bath, Mary Jo Trimble, and Dr. Warren Wunderlich. Our vote is due by Sept. 14.
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Notified Nebraska Border Collie Rescue that the BCSA board voted to grant them $1000 from the rescue fund. Wayne reported that NBCR sent a thank you note.
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Notified Joy Newbrough that BCSA will reimburse for 600 copies of BC handouts for a BC informational booth at a herding festival.
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Received a couple of letters pointing out AHA's affiliation with restrictive dog legislation, forwarded them to the BCSA board.
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Received a letter from Sarah Ruckelshaus, MABCR (which was affiliated with AHA before the grant was offered) has not received their $2000 grant yet. Am following up with her to see if she has contact info for who to ask at Pedigree about it.
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Received an inquiry from MABCR asking about a grant for them to publish their newsletter that they had applied for a while ago. Forwarded it to the BCSA board.
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Faxed letters of opposition to AB1634 to California state senators.
4. Treasurer’s Report: Wayne Koutsky
4.1. General Account Balances as of 11 July 2007
Checking balance: $ 9361
Savings (Money Market) balance: $ 46,710
Health balance: $ 7269
Rescue balance: $ 16,320
Total: $ 79,660Main expenses this month – Rescue grants $4000 and 2006 specialty bills $6100.
4.2. 2007 Specialty Income/Expenses
Income: $3145 (trophies and seminar)
Expenses: $5013 (trophies)
5. Interim Business Transacted by E-Mail
5.1. Board Votes
Motion 2007-04 made by Denise Teal on June 14, 2007: Due to work obligations, Julia Ecklar will not be able to continue as recording secretary. Motion to appoint Jo Roach as recording secretary. Second: Kelly Hagstrand. In favor: unanimous.
Board voted to approve.Motion 2007-5 made by Denise Teal on July 12, 2007 to approve the minutes of the June 2007 Board meeting.
Second: Kelly Hagstrand. In favor: unanimous.
Board voted to approve.5.2. New Member Applications
The following membership applications were approved:
• Debbie and Bob Spence (Rhome, TX)
Sponsor: Victoria Severns
• Carol Clark (Kansas City, MO)
Sponsor: Kelly Whiteman
• Jeanne S. Hendrickson (Albert Lea, MN)
Sponsor: Claudia Roberto
• Anne Lippert (Mt. Dora, FL)
Sponsor: Barbara Light
Motion: Denise Teal
Second: Sally Davis
In Favor: Unanimous
6. Committee Business/Reports:
6.1. Advertising Manager (Club) Volunteer Needed
6.2. Affiliate Clubs: Emily Fish - No report.
6.3. Agility Trial in Feb: Pennsylvania: Karen Herceg - No report.
6.4. Agility Trial in July: Ohio: Denise Teal
This trial was very successful and should net approx. $2400.
All involved are willing to do the trial again; dates will be 28 & 29 June 2008.
One improvement would be to cut back on the size of the ribbons. The large specialty rosettes were used (there will be plenty of ribbons left over to use at this year’s specialty). Next year, money could be saved by using smaller ribbons and sharing ribbons with the February trial in Pennsylvania. Next year new title ribbons will be purchased as requested by trial exhibitors.
6.5. AKC Gazette Columnist: Gerianne Darnell - No report.
6.6. BCSA Announce & Suggestion Box: Nancy Little - No report.
6.7. BCSA Store Inventory & Orders: Nancie Mages - No report.
6.8. BCSA Merchandise Manager for Ivars Account:
Orders coming in, he has added fanny packs.6.9. Border Recorder: Volunteer Needed
6.10. Borderlines: Denise Teal
Lisa will send out request & job description for a volunteer who will solicit BL advertising from vendors/businesses to help increase income.6.11. Breeder Referral: Karen Herceg - No report.
6.12. Color Committee: Casey Carney
This committee has now fulfilled its mission and is being retired.6.13. Finance Committee: Beth Bartholomew
Nothing new to report.6.14. Futurity Committee: Volunteer Needed
6.15. General Education: Donna Mallory
Continuing to work on the breeding document, making the additions the board requested as well as more whelping info, etc.6.16. Health: Volunteer Needed (Lisa handing off)
6.16.1. CHIC: Lisa will call CHIC for more information and advice.
6.16.2.Health survey:
Casey Carney has offered to help with the health survey. The board has decided to have Casey pursue a web-based survey to be developed by Larry Hopkins. Mr. Hopkins has developed similar surveys for several clubs, including the Rhodesian Ridgeback and Cocker club. Michelle will send Casey a copy of the health survey information that Yvonne Anderson put together.6.16.3. AKC/CHF Canine Health Conference:
10/19-21 in St. Louis: need to choose a representative to go. Michelle contacted Emily Czapek and Emily is working on getting someone from the HEF committee to attend.6.17. Health Education Foundation (HEF): Dawn Antoniak Mitchell (chair), Emily Czapek (president) - No report.
6.18. Herding: Claudia Frank - No report.
6.19. Historian: Mickey Bruzek - No report.
6.20. Juniors: Mary Beth Overmyer & Linda Follis
The board agreed to provide t-shirts and gift bags for the juniors at the specialty.6.21. Judges Education: Linnea Klingel
Linn is working on a "refresher" letter to all existing licensed judges, to accompany the CD-ROM we're mailing out.
Linn inquired about using the auditorium at Purina Farms for the Judges Education. It is a large room and would be better for the Power Point presentation. Lisa will contact Linn and ask her to pursue that option and have Linn contact Megan and Julie to inform them about this idea.
The updated mentor list is on the website.
Linn is making arrangements for the presentations in Houston and Pittsburg
Upcoming presentation requests:
Houston Cluster in July: Linn will do this one.
Adv Judging Institute in August in PA: Linn is doing this one.
National specialty: will ask Robin Penland to do again.
November 2007: Michelle in Seattle
February 2008: Linn at Westminster
April 2008: Wichita Cluster, includes arena demo
6.22. Judges Selection Process: Sonja Donaldson Chair
The new Judges Selection Policy has been posted on the website.2008 Specialty:
Conformation, Agility, and Sweepstakes judges are still needed. With time running short, the board discussed ways to speed up the Judges Selection process for this specialty so the remaining judges could be hired in a timely fashion. The process decided upon will include one last chance for members to suggest judges on the website, provide affiliate clubs with input, allow time for the judges to fill out their questionnaires, and then give the board a chance to review the questionnaires before presenting the final list to the membership for a vote. The board resolved to follow the following timeline so that the hiring process for the judges can start at the end of August to increase our chances of hiring the judges the membership prefers.
Deadlines for process:
15 July – membership to add to judges list on website.
22 July – affiliate clubs choose from list.
23 July – forms sent to judges.
01 Aug – forms returned/postmarked from judges. Board will start reviewing questionnaires.
13 Aug – board meeting and vote to narrow list to our top 10 choices per venue.
14 Aug – final list and questionnaires submitted to membership for voting and feedback.
30 Aug – final vote tally and hiring process begins.2009 Specialty: continue to suspend the judges selection process until chairs are named.
6.23. Legislative Liaison: Linda Baron - No report.
6.24. Membership: Kathy Sours - No report.
6.25. Nominating Committee Procedure: Karen Herceg - No report.
6.26. Recruitment: Volunteer Needed
6.27. ROM: Kim Sykes
This committee needs a new name. Kim is working on a breeder recognition program and she is finalizing the forms for members to submit dogs for ROM and ROMX.6.28. Rescue Liaison: Megan Harrison - No report.
6.29. Versatility: Tashia Lund
Nothing new to report. Still working on the possible updates to the Flyball titles.6.30. Website: Ann Shaw
Regular site maintenance and page updates.
Started review of all pages for consistency in font and layout, broken links and graphics.
Very happy with BCSA site hosting firm (NTT/Verio). Hosting is up for renewal 8/3/07 and will renew for two years this time to get a slightly higher discount.
7. Old Business
7.1. 2007 Specialty: Megan Harrison & Julie Bosier
Premium list status: they arrived in the mail the week of 25 June.
Specialty wear is selling well.
Discussed how to allocate the extra $153 for conformation prizes. The board decided the extra money should go towards prizes for Herding Titled dog/bitch and Bred By dog/bitch.
Motion: Denise Teal
Second: Terri Clingerman
In favor: Sally Davis, Kelly Hagstrand, Wayne Koutsky, Jo Roach
Oppose: Lisa PrukaLisa will email Julie and Megan to make sure they know the procedure for dealing with misconduct by exhibitors and non-exhibitors.
7.2. 2008 National Specialty: Denise Teal & Linda Koutsky
Nothing new to report.7.3. AKC Parent Club Conference
Claudia is going, this is in July.7.4. AKC Good Sportsmanship Medallion
Michelle sent out a call for nominations, due 31 August, to allow time for the announcement to go into Borderlines. A winner will be selected in September and the award presented at the specialty. Nominees will be published in Borderlines. A reminder will be sent to the membership in August.7.5. AHA/Pedigree Rescue Grant
Pedigree ended up wanting to send the $2,000 grants directly to parent clubs, instead of having the money come from AHA, due to political complications with AHA and the California Assembly Bill. We had chosen MABCR to be the recipient so we will now forward the money on to them, instead of them receiving it from AHA. Michelle will contact PEDIGREE again to ask when we can expect the check.7.6. HEC Email List
The HEC is developing a discussion list to reach a wider audience for input. They plan to include our delegate, President, & Secretary by default; and are asking that we submit four other names. This issue is pending official notice from the committee that they are ready for us to submit our suggestions.7.7. ILP Application Request for Help
Michelle contacted Chris Strom about Kerry Steven’s rough coated, mostly black dog to report that the board was satisfied that it appeared to be a purebred border collie.7.8. PNWBCC Supported Entry Request
Michelle emailed their President, Emily Fish, letting her know that the supported entry was approved. We are waiting for the completed forms to be forwarded to us so they can be signed by a board member.7.9. Educational Event: Benedum Festival Meet the Breeds Booth
Joy Newbrough (a BCSA member) has requested approx.150 breed-related educational handouts to be given out at the event; she is hosting a Border Collie booth. Terri contacted her to let her know we’ll reimburse her for up to 600 copies. Joy has submitted her receipts and Wayne has sent her a check.7.10. Eukanuba Invitational: Medallion Sponsorship
Terri confirmed with AKC that we are sponsoring these awards and a check has been sent. The total is $165.7.11. Judges Ed Herding Video
Video and DVD footage is being collected. Video footage will be converted to digital format for the final product.7.12. Goals
Two areas of focus we’ve identified for this year:
1. Herding video for judges education.
2. Health survey out this year.
8. New Business
8.1. Thanks to Julia & Welcome Jo Roach
Thank you to Julia for serving on the board the last six months & best wishes in her new job! Welcome aboard to Jo and thanks for taking the job on short notice.8.2. California Assembly Bill 1634
Official letters of opposition from the BCSA were faxed to California State Senators. We received word today that the bill was pulled from committee.8.3. 2009 National Specialty
We need to identify chairs for this event soon if we hope to employ our new Judges Selection Policy. Lisa Pruka & Sonja Donaldson had volunteered to co-chair for 2009 but Lisa may not have time to fully participate as a co-chair if she chooses to run for BCSA president since she’ll be serving as president during the 2009 specialty and it would be difficult to do both. Lisa will talk to Sonja about finding someone else to co-chair in Lisa’s place.8.4. BCSA sponsored duck trial
Denise Teal has asked the board if BCSA would sponsor an AKC B course duck trial in conjunction with her local herding club. Denise’s club uses all its event numbers and would like to try an A and B course duck trial with separate event numbers.
The trial would be held in early May 2008 in Tecumseh, Michigan. This has been the site of AKC duck trials for the past 2 years. The trial this year filled with a.m. and p.m. trials on a Saturday/Sunday. A local Sheltie club has been a co-sponsor for the last 2 years but their interest has dwindled.
This would be contingent on Denise finding 3 more club members for the show committee (in addition to herself and Claudia Frank). Denise is also requesting $100 from BCSA for B course funding.
The board discussed Denise’s request and responded in favor of Denise moving forward with this idea. The board suggested that Denise email the membership via Announce to see if anyone is interested in volunteering to be on the show committee.
8.5. National Specialty Committee
The board discussed soliciting volunteers to head up a new committee to:
• oversee general National Specialty policy-making
• develop a bid form, allowing regional clubs to bid for the National
• develop an online chair handbook
• document current policies for future NationalsThe board decided to ask Megan and Julie if they would be willing to get started on this project as they work on this year’s specialty. Michelle will contact them.
8.6. “Meet Your Committee” regular column in Borderlines
The board discussed asking each committee to write an article once a year to highlight what the committee has been doing, to share what they would like to do, and to give them an opportunity to request club member involvement in their projects. Lisa will add this item to the committee reports and will notify the committees when it is their month to write an article.8.7. Suggestion Box Submissions/Input from Membership
No report.8.8. Date of Next meeting
Monday 13 August, 5:00 pm PDT/8:00 pm EDT8.9. Adjournment
Adjournment motion: 6:47 p.m. PDT by Wayne Koutsky
Second: Denise Teal
In Favor: Unanimous
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